[Perspectives] Raewyn Connell: influential gender theorist
Sociologist Raewyn Connell has been globally influential in developing a social theory of gender relations and for her studies of masculinities. Her pathway to sociology had its origins in her activism in the anti-war student movement of the 1960s, participating in the labour movement, and learning from the women's liberation movement in Australia from the 1970s. Today she is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. She is also a coauthor of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health.
Sociologist Raewyn Connell has been globally influential in developing a social theory of gender relations and for her studies of masculinities. Her pathway to sociology had its origins in her activism in the anti-war student movement of the 1960s, participating in the labour movement, and learning from the women's liberation movement in Australia from the 1970s. Today she is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. She is also a coauthor of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health.
